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The goal here was to remove 2 menu items from the context menu on a document library, without affecting the other menu items.  The menu (before changes) is below. Original menu, before any changes   The goal was to remove the two menu items “SMS Document Approval” and “Publish a Major Version”.  The first was …

I posted this today on our internal blog, it may be of some interest to you. vSphere 5 (ESXi) has a known weird problem on system boot when using software enabled iSCSI (eg NOT using hardware iSCSI HBA’s). ESXi will check each and every iSCSI connection it knows about (so every path to every iSCSI …

Almost all of us in the IT world have been faced with the “emergency” of an old yet critical system that starts to fail and that cannot be easily replaced.  The scenario usually revolves around old line of business software that runs on old hardware/operating system (Widows 2000, anyone????) which is impossible to replace (vendor …

Yup, weird title, but then this is a bit of a weird topic.  The whole IT industry is running hell bent for leather towards the “Cloud” yet many organizations are also madly building out their own infrastructure.  Who’s right?  What’s the best thing to do if you are planning out your next 3 – 5 …

Under normal circumstances, when you’re debugging a custom SharePoint solution, the process is easy and simple. However, it’s not always as easy as that. The definition of normal is of course subjective, but typically (and as defined here) it would be a single server environment in which Visual Studio (2010) would be installed on the …

One thing the “big guys” have always had available to them is “two factor” authentication in the form of products such as SecureID from RSA (there are others but SecureID is the one I’m most familiar with).  Two factor authentication goes beyond the password authentication mechanisms we are all used to and adds a layer …

Sean, itgroove President and SharePoint MVP asked me to produce a "Coles Notes" about SQL tuning and SharePoint 2010 for our internal blog.  I thought it might be of some help to you. Everything below is a precis of what Microsoft has published on SharePoint 2010 and SQL here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=24282) To make a long story …

We just finished migrating one of our customers to SBS2011 Premium and I thought it might be worthwhile to share some of the experience with you. This was not a simple migration a la SBS2008 –> SBS2011 or even a migration from SBS2003.  Rather, it was a migration from a standalone Server2003 DC with Exchange …

I’ve been dealing with backup questions over the last little while and it seems that a lot of SMB operations have a lot of confusion about what constitutes a backup system.  I guess in very simple terms, a backup system is a aggregation of tools and devices that produce some sort of “copy” of your …

I’ve been in this business a long, long time and I’ve worked for reseller/consultants as well as in IT in private business.  In that time I’ve had more than my fair share of heart attacks while at a customer site or at a company location, said heart attacks caused by some seemingly disastrous screw up …